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Digital learning in a new age

eSchool News

These learning options can transform education because they allow for learning, teaching, and student engagement outside the confines of traditional physical schools. Digital learning meets the needs of today’s students, who are seeking flexibility in their scheduling.

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The Essential Pillars of Effective PE Class

Teach Hub

When most people think of PE, they picture students taking laps around the gym, a few games of dodgeball, or students trying to sneak their way out of participating. But physical education is so much more than just burning off energy or giving kids a break from academics.

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💡🧲 Physics! Meet our Top Physics Tutors & Discover Curriculum for Kids

Teach Your Kids

As the workforce continues to evolve toward technology, energy, and engineering fields, physics provides essential knowledge for future jobs in aerospace, robotics, data science, and clean tech. Even for students who do not pursue STEM careers, physics fosters a flexible, problem-solving mindset that is useful in any field.

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Explicit instruction: Students need more of it

eSchool News

As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The best teaching had to do with inquiry, with higher-level thinking, with student-centered project-based learning. What students–especially struggling students–also need is teacher-directed explicit instruction.

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Problem-based learning helped boost my underserved students’ engagement

eSchool News

As educators, our charge is to impart knowledge onto our students, open new doors for them, and encourage them to stretch beyond their comfort zones. As a physical education teacher in an underserved community, finding ways to connect with my classes during the pandemic and a time of remote learning was challenging.

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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. series, we will explore how we can provide students with choices that enable them to transfer and apply their learning effectively. In this third and final installment of our “Would You Rather?”

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The Power of Connect, Extend, Challenge

Catlin Tucker

Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles. Next, students progress to the stage of “extend.” More than mere content digestion, this method nurtures metacognitive growth.